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H. A. JUKES.

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Patented Dec. 28, 1886,

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UNITED STATES PATENT, OFFICE.

HAMILTON A. JUKES, OF WINNIPEG, MANITOBA, CANADA.

CAR-CQUPLING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 355,174, dated December 28, 1886.

Application filed May 8, 1886. Serial No. 201,613. (No model.) I

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

- Be it known that I, HAMILTON AUGUSTUS JUKEs, of the city of Winnipeg, in the county of Selkirk and Province of Manitoba, Canada, a British subject, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Gar-Couplers, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in car-couplers in which the operation of coupling is greatly facilitated and the time occupied in so doing reduced to a minimum, be sides which the danger to the brakeman of go= ing between the cars is avoided altogether. I attain these objects by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawing, which is part longitudinal section, part side elevation, of draw-head embodying my invention.

D is the draw-head, externally somewhat similar to those now in use, but iscast with'a deep bell-mouth, as shown, and a chamber of the peculiar shape shown on the drawing, the lower portion rounded for the reception of the link-barO, as shown, having its sides parallel, of the shape shown in section, and slotted to receive the key A.

B is a claw working on a pin, and rises in the cavity when the link or flatted pin is introduced, and returns to its position of its own weight before the key A is pushed forward.

0 is a flat bar with ends rounded and enlarged, as shown, and slotted, so that it may be used with pin when it is desired to connect with one of the draw-heads now in use.

A is the key, which is worked by a lever suitably placed and extending to the side of 5 the car. In the action of coupling, the bar 0 is pushed into the cavity. The draw-heads then touch,and the pressure is continued until the key A is stopped by the plate E, attached to the bottom of the car. The key A is then pushed forward, while the'draw-head recedes under pressure against the spring, the result being that the motion locks the cars together completely. v

To unlock, all that is necessary is to move the lever acting on the key A, and the cavity formed admits space enough for the claw B to rise sufficiently to let the bar 0 out, when it is ready, without any further adjustment, to be coupled again.

- What I claim as my invention, and what I desire to patent, is-

The peculiar form of the cavity in drawhead D, in combination with the claw B, Working on the pin, the key A, operated by the le- Ver, the plate E, attached to the bottom of the car, and the bar 0, slotted or plain, subs'tantially as and for the purposes above set forth.

H. A. JUKES. WVitnesses:

J AMES A. MILLER,- '1. O. MINER. 

